Emacs doesn't compile with UTF-8 locales

[Nikolaus Rath]

Hello!

Compiling emacs with utf-8 locales doesn't work. make bootstrap fails
with:

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| Loading vc-hooks (source)...
| Loading ediff-hook (source)...
| ((48896 . 15071) (9360 . 0) (518 . 179) 98766 100545 (14 . 9) (16 . 48) (4562 
. 1360))
| Finding pointers to doc strings...
| Finding pointers to doc strings...done
| Dumping under names emacs and emacs-21.2.50
| 1887152 pure bytes used
| mv -f emacs bootstrap-emacs
| rm -f temacs
| make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/nikratio/cvs/emacs/src'
| (cd lisp; make  bootstrap EMACS=../src/bootstrap-emacs)
| make[1]: Entering directory `/home/nikratio/cvs/emacs/lisp'
| wd=/home/nikratio/cvs/emacs/lisp; subdirs=`find $wd -type d -print`; for file 
in $subdirs; do case $file in */Old | */RCS | */CVS | */CVS/* | */=* ) ;; *) 
wins="$wins $file" ;; esac; done; \
| echo Directories: $wins; \
| ../src/bootstrap-emacs -batch --no-site-file --multibyte -l autoload --eval 
'(setq generated-autoload-file "/home/nikratio/cvs/emacs/lisp/loaddefs.el")' -f 
batch-update-autoloads $wins
| Directories: /home/nikratio/cvs/emacs/lisp /home/nikratio/cvs/emacs/lisp/calc 
/home/nikratio/cvs/emacs/lisp/gnus /home/nikratio/cvs/emacs/lisp/calendar 
/home/nikratio/cvs/emacs/lisp/emacs-lisp 
/home/nikratio/cvs/emacs/lisp/emulation /home/nikratio/cvs/emacs/lisp/eshell 
/home/nikratio/cvs/emacs/lisp/international 
/home/nikratio/cvs/emacs/lisp/language /home/nikratio/cvs/emacs/lisp/mail 
/home/nikratio/cvs/emacs/lisp/net /home/nikratio/cvs/emacs/lisp/obsolete 
/home/nikratio/cvs/emacs/lisp/play /home/nikratio/cvs/emacs/lisp/progmodes 
/home/nikratio/cvs/emacs/lisp/term /home/nikratio/cvs/emacs/lisp/textmodes 
/home/nikratio/cvs/emacs/lisp/toolbar
| Recursive load: "/home/nikratio/cvs/emacs/lisp/help-mode.el", 
"/home/nikratio/cvs/emacs/lisp/help-mode.el", 
"/home/nikratio/cvs/emacs/lisp/help-mode.el", 
"/home/nikratio/cvs/emacs/lisp/help-mode.el", 
"/home/nikratio/cvs/emacs/lisp/help-mode.el", 
"/home/nikratio/cvs/emacs/lisp/disp-table.el"
| make[1]: *** [autoloads] Error 255
| make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/nikratio/cvs/emacs/lisp'
| make: *** [bootstrap-lisp] Error 2
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After switching to a standard latin-* locale i was able to compile
without problems.

   --Nikolaus